{"id":84516,"date":"2026-06-15T16:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84516"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:36:50","slug":"treyarch-head-mark-gordon-steps-down-from-call-of-duty-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84516","title":{"rendered":"Treyarch Head Mark Gordon Steps Down from Call of Duty Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Treyarch studio head Mark Gordon will be leaving the studio after 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>Treyarch <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Treyarch\/status\/2066585613734957337?s=20\">announced the news on its socials<\/a>, confirming that Gordon is leaving to begin the next chapter of his career, which has yet to be announced. Yale Miller and Kevin Hendrickson will take over as co-studio heads going forward. Miller and Hendrickson have been with Activision for years, with numerous respective credits on the Call of Duty franchise. <\/p>\n<p>Gordon&#8217;s departure comes just a few years after Treyarch&#8217;s studio design director, David Vonderhaar \u2014 who was best known for overseeing the multiplayer modes in the Black Ops franchise \u2014 left<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/ex-call-of-duty-black-ops-design-director-david-vonderhaar-teases-new-original-fps-if-david-lynch-made-shooters\"> to start his own studio<\/a>. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-best-call-of-duty-campaigns\" data-value=\"the-best-call-of-duty-campaigns\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Treyarch isn&#8217;t expected to have a new Call of Duty game for another two years, so long as there aren&#8217;t any major changes or disruptions to the Call of Duty development cycle. Infinity Ward will release Modern Warfare 4 later this year, and Sledgehammer Games is expected, though not confirmed, to release a new entry in the franchise next year. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if Treyarch is producing another Black Ops game. Although Black Ops 6 was a success, Black Ops 7 was considered a commercial disappointment and marked a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treyarch studio head Mark Gordon will be leaving the studio after 22 years. Treyarch announced the news on its socials, confirming that Gordon is leaving to begin the next chapter of his career, which has yet to be announced. Yale Miller and Kevin Hendrickson will take over as co-studio heads going forward. Miller and Hendrickson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":84518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84520,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84516\/revisions\/84520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}